Top Typecast Quotes

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1. "Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast."Author: Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje

2. "Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so."Author: Aisha Tyler

3. "I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting."Author: Bea Arthur

4. "After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions."Author: Bert Lahr

5. "It's up to the actor to make sure they don't get typecast."Author: Bryan Cranston

6. "I don't believe in being typecast. If I believed it, it probably would have happened to me. You attract what you make."Author: Carrie Anne Moss

7. "'Night of the Comet' established me as a strong woman. And let's face it, this business is very surface and one dimensional - so it's easy to get typecast."Author: Catherine Mary Stewart

8. "If you're ever being typecasted - as most of us are - that's a great way to be typecasted. So, 'The Rifleman' is still popular with a lot of people, and I'm proud to be associated."Author: Chuck Connors

9. "I don't want to be typecast as the 'ambient guy' or someone who only does electronic scores. I think most of the work that comes my way is because people feel they know me musically."Author: Cliff Martinez

10. "If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good."Author: Colin Baker

17. "I'm trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time."Author: Famke Janssen

18. "Hollywood typecast me as the secretary. I could have worked as the quirky secretary for the rest of my life, but I decided not to do that."Author: Felicia Day

19. "Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy."Author: Gene Hackman

20. "As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!"Author: George A. Romero

21. "I don't feel typecast almost at all, and it could just be because I'm insensitive, but I doubt it. I think most of my roles I've gotten have very little to do with my ethnicity. I don't feel that's a limiting factor for my career."Author: Grace Park

22. "I was beginning to think I was typecast in everyone's mind out there as a serial killer. I played a serial killer in one movie, I was the ghost of a serial killer in another and in a third, a computer-generated serial killer. The stage looks pretty good after those roles."Author: Jared Harris

23. "I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I felt this was a myth. After all, how can you be typecast as Christ?"Author: Jeffrey Hunter

24. "I'm an old school actor in the sense. More and more now, I play myself as I get older. Even as a writer, I never got typecast. I've always bounced from project to project or initiated my own things."Author: Jim Piddock

25. "I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever."Author: JoBeth Williams

26. "I never got in this business, in cinema, to make horror movies. They arrived on my doorstep and I got typecast. Which was fine, I enjoy it, but I got into this business to make westerns. And the kind of westerns I used to see, they died. So that didn't work out."Author: John Carpenter

27. "Directors, like actors, get typecast. And because I've had great success with comedy and horror and TV shows, that's basically what I'm kind of offered."Author: John Landis

28. "No, the type-casting didn't happen until after Star Trek. I don't think that you get typecast until you've been cast!"Author: Jonathan Frakes

29. "I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema."Author: Julia Leigh

30. "I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting."Author: Kali Hawk

31. "I tend to get cast as a certain type of quiet, almost introverted person who's strong on the inside, but the characters are so very different I don't see it as any kind of typecasting."Author: Kelly Macdonald

32. "People get tattoes to be different. But by doing that, you have essentially typecast yourself."Author: Leslie Dean Brown

46. "No one likes to be typecast or stereotyped, especially actors. But who would know Esther Williams without a swimming pool, Bela Lugosi without a cape, or Elvis Presley without his guitar. Would we even care?"Author: Susan Marg

47. "I do so many roles, I can't be typecast."Author: Tommy Davidson

48. "I want to show my range before I fall into any typecasting. I've turned down a lot of things trying to wait. But at the end of my career, whether that be tomorrow or 40 years from now, I would like to look back and be able to say, 'Ah, I never fell into any gimmicks.'"Author: Troy Garity

49. "I've said maybe too many times that I'd rather be typecast than not cast at all."Author: William Sanderson

50. "If you overdo something, you end up typecast. You always have to expand."Author: Wood Harris